Card-holder.



S. T JENSSEN. CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION mm mm]. 1911.

Patented Aug. 6; 1918.

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CARD-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

Application filed April 27, 1917. .Seria1No.164,85 1. Y j

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SIGVALDT. JENSSEN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements, in Card-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in card holders, the object of the invention being to provide a simple, inexpensive device, which can be attachedto a windowor door frame, and which will most efficiently hold a card, photograph, or other similar article against the glass of the window or door so that the article can be readily seen from the opposite side of the window or door.

A further object is to provide a card holder which is especially adapted for use in connection with office doors, enabling the ofiice holder to readily position the card against the inner face of the glass door so as to indicate when he will return, and so construct the card holder that it will most efficiently hold the card in a flat position against the glass, regardless of the thickness of the door frame.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary view in elevation, of a door illustrating my improved cardholder, in full lines in operative position and in dotted lines in inoperative position.

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the card holder removed.

Fig. 3 is a view'in section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a view in section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

1 represents the door which is ordinarily of wood, and 2 is the glass or transparent portion of the door which, in office buildings, is usually frosted or otherwise treated to permit it to admit light without allowing a view of the room.

A card such as indicated at 3, in order to be seen from the outside of the door must be pressed tightly and smoothly against the inner face of the glass, and my improved card holder 4 efficiently performs this function.

spring metal 5 given a general; compound curvature adjacent one .end as shown at .6, and at one end preferably rounded as shown at 7. This rounded portion 7 isprovided centrally with an opening 8 to receive a screw, nail, or other securing device 9 which isdriv'en into the door 1. The rounded portion 7 is provided on its inner face with a circular bearing ridge 10 which .may be formed by pressing the metal, as clearly shown-in Fig. 4. a

This bearing ridge 1O permits the card holder to be'easily turned from the position shown in. full lines tothat shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and spaces the main portion of the device away from the door so as not to disfigure the same.

The spring metal strip 5 preferably tapers or reduces in width from its rounded end 7 to its free end 12 where it is provided with an opening 13 to receive a rivet 14. The rivet 14 is counter-sunk at one end in a disk 11 and extends through a spacing sleeve 15, through the opening 13, and through a washer 16, and upset atits end as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The spacing sleeve 15 at its end adjacent the spring metal strip 5, is beveled or made conical and the connection between the sleeve and the strip is a loose one, so that the disk 11 is permitted movement in all directions, as well as a rotary movement to enable the disk to assume the necessary angular position relative to the spring metal strip 5, and always lie flat against the card 3 to press the same firmly and smoothly against the inner face of the glass 2.

When the card is not desired, the holder may be swung to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and will, by the elasticity of strip 5, maintain itself in any position to which it is moved.

When it is desired to hold the card, it is simply necessary to hold the card against The cardholder 4 consists .ofa strip of a the glass and then swing the card holder to used for various other purposes, such as holding photographs or advertising matter against store Windows or showcases, and therefore do not limit myself to any particular use or to the precise details setforth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spiritand scope of the appended claims.

Having fully described invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- :ters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a spring-strip adapted to be connected to a support, and a disk loosely cona'lected-to :the free end of thestrip to move in different planes.

2. A device of thecharacter described, comprising avspring strip adapted tote secured at one end ito'ra support, and a disk spaced from the other end-of the strip, having a rotary connection with the strip, and having also limited :angular movement relative to :the strip.

3. A device of the charactersta'ted, comprising a spring member of considerable length compared With its width and having one terminal provided with an opening to Lamas"? receive a securing device, a-disk for the second terminal thereof and limited r0taryand universal-joint connection between the disk and the second terminal, one of the membersof the joint spacing the disk from the with the free end of the strip, and a spacing sleeve-0n the rivet between the disk and the strip, sald spacing sleeve hav nga tapering end adjacent the --strip.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name "to time specification 1n the presence of two subscribmg wltnesses.

SIGVALD T. JENSS EN.

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